In Novel ESPS Lawsuit, Final Briefs Keep Focus On Procedural Questions

摘要

EPA and coal company Murray Energy have filed final briefs in the company's novel litigation seeking to block the agency from promulgating a final rule regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) at existing power plants, with the litigants focused largely on a series of threshold procedural questions that will determine whether judges reach the merits before EPA issues a final rule this summer. The briefs, filed March 9, mark the culmination of months of legal filings in the litigation, In re: Murray Energy Corporation, roughly a month before April 16 oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.